A journal experiment for the month of April in 2018
I am live-blogging my entire process and thought patterns around work this month. Follow along!
Posts:
- Wed at 07:34 - An update: one thing
- Sat at 01:14 - Closing projects from C to G
- Fri at 14:51 - Hoodies and website edits
- Fri at 12:46 - Learning to say no
- Wed at 08:41 - Issues with streaks
- Thu at 22:13 - Silent Book Club
- Wed at 16:49 - Maintainer Repository Audits and Open Collective
- Wed at 12:16 - Open Source Meetups in Montreal
- Wed at 11:31 - Why am I writing on this site?
- Wed at 11:27 - Planning better social media integration for posts
- Tue at 20:54 - The CBC and daily roundup
- Mon at 20:08 - Web development day
- Mon at 11:38 - The Litt Review
- Mon at 11:32 - April priorities
All content CC-BY-NC © 2018 Richard Littauer.
One of the projects I gave up when I archived and deleted the vast majority of my projects was this one. I didn’t mean for that to happen, but it did, and I’m not sorry for not updating you in a while.
I’ve been working on my thesis. As a result of having one thing I am doing every day, I’ve written more in the past two weeks than in the past four years. I’ve been deprioritizing my business, coding, writing, and anything else that gets in the way. Instead, I’ve been working for hours every day, learning, writing, and contributing meaningfully to something which has been bugging me for half a decade.
I’ve also been, almost uniformly, happier. I’m utterly shocked by how easy happiness in work is to achieve, on how focused you can be, if you drop everything else and work on a single project. I’m going to keep going.
Send me an email. I’ll read it when I’m ready.